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Show UTAH MAN HUNTERS PURSUING MURDERERS I POSSES HEADY I FDR BATTLE ON I MEETING GANG I Two Killed and Two Wounded By Bandit Quartet At Eureka, Utah MINE SUPERINTENDENT FIRST TO FALL DEAD Outlaws After Payroll Flee to Hills When Shots Summon Citizens (Special Dispatch! EUREKA, Mar. lu Man hunters under the direction of Sheriff Boyd of I tah county early this morning took thc field to capture tho Mexican bandits who last night killed two persons per-sons at Eureka in connection with an j attempted robbery and wounded two others so severely their wounds may T..e fatal. The rtead ore John "Weslerdahl. superintendent of the Tintlc Standard mine und 1 p Peterson, proprietor of a billiard hall in connection with the Tintlc Standard store. The mounded are John Mason, owner own-er of thc Tintic Standard store an.) manager of the North Standard mine. an.l Jesus Hernendes nn cmplove of thc Tintlc Standard mine. POSSE BEAD) To FIGHT Believing that the murderers are desperate and well-armed, the poss-is poss-is made up of fearless men, all good marksmen, who are ready to battl to the death if need he. The four bandits entered the store and ordored Manson, proprietor, to bold up his hands and deliver the contents of the safe, Weslerdahl entered the door and, under thc Impression that a mimic holdup was being staged by friends. oani red the bandits. He was ordered to back up against thc wall and raise his hands. W'estcrdahl. still under the impression that the whole affair was in play, advanced with a joke on his lips toward the holdups. All foul opened fjre and WesterdahJ fell on his face, dead. B VMdTS TFAR HIDDEN GUN Pursuing their original plans, the bandits commanded thc storekeeper once more to open the safe. As he advanced toward the safo to do their bidding one of the desperadoes be-came be-came suspicious and voiced his opinion that a gun was hidden in tho safe. As -Manson placed his hand upon the tumbler of thc safe he was shot down. bullets piercing his arm and left From the poolhall, where he was aroused by the shooting, Peterson en-tered en-tered tho store to be greeted by o shower of lead. He fell forward into the store, shot through thc breast. He died three hours later. Jesus Hernendez, an employe of the Tintic Standard mine, an Amerl- i-u.a-d .Iek-an. was attracted from l the street by tho fray. As he entered the door of tiro store one of the four bandits fired pointilank mto Mm faef, tho bullet entering at the month ami emerging at the back of the head. l Hernendes and Manson were declar-ed declar-ed by physicians last night to be dy Tho four holdups dashed from the store and, flourishing their guns. headed for the bills, darkness and safety. POSSE FORMED BY SHERIFF Citizens of the community in the near vicinity of tho Tintlc Standard gave Chase. Sheriff J. D. Boyd of Utah county I formed a posse upon notification of I the affair at Provo and started for Eureka, where, with the cooperation of citizens, he expects to cut off all avenues of escape for the murderers and scour the hills until they are tak-en tak-en captives. Another posse, hi aded by Sheriff Martin and Deputy Sheriff Cronin of Juab, are also In pursuit of the bandlt3. starting our from Eureka. It ls believed the motive for the shooting and hilling and attempted robbery' was the belief that thc pay-roll pay-roll for the Tintlc Standard mine was iu tha possesusion of Manson. To-morrow To-morrow is payday at the mine and the Impression v. as prevalent around lh mine that the money wus kept In tno store safe. sLT LAKE RESIDENT. John W'estcrdahl. the victim of the bandits' bullets, lived at 1140 Second aenue. Salt Lake, until about six months ago. when lie moved with his wife and two daughters. Helen and MM Isabella, to Dividend, to be nearer to his work Isabella Is attending school here at Rowland Hall. Mr. Westerdahl was a veteran mln-ing mln-ing man of tho Rocky mountain west. He saw the rlc and fall of a numbei of mining camps in Idaho, and came to Utah and Eureka when the Tintlc BH Standard was lr. Its youth. Going to work in the mine as a common miner, .Mr. Westerdahl by diligent and faith-ful faith-ful effort worked his way to the su-perlntendency. |